Auditors and Executive Officers Changes
January 30, 2019
OMRON Corporation (HQ: Shimogyo-Ku, Kyoto. President and CEO: Yoshihito Yamada) today announced that the Board of Directors decided the following Auditors and Executive Officers changes.
1. Auditors (Term: From the day at the 2019 Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting in June to the day at the 2023 Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting)
*Underline: Changed position and title
| New Position and Title | Previous Position and Title | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Audit & Supervisory Board Member | Newly Appointed | Kiyoshi Yoshikawa |
| Retired | Audit & Supervisory Board Member |
Tokio Kawashima |
* The above appointments are subject to approval at the 82nd Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting scheduled in June 2019.
2. Executive Officers (As of April 1, 2019)
*Underline: Changed position and title
| New Position and Title | Previous Position and Title | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Managing Executive Officer, CEO, OMRON EUROPE B.V., Industrial Automation Company |
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Strategy Planning Division HQ, and Senior General Manager, Robotics Business Development Project, Industrial Automation Company |
Seigo Kinugawa |
| Managing Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Human Resources and Administration HQ |
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Human Resources and Administration HQ |
Masahiko Tomita |
| Managing Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Product Business Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Product Business Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
Junta Tsujinaga |
| Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Manufacturing Innovation HQ |
Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, New Business Development Global Center, and Senior General Manager, Global Human Resources HQ, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD. |
Kenji Eda |
| Executive Officer, President and CEO, OMRON FIELD ENGINEERING CO., LTD. |
President and CEO, OMRON FIELD ENGINEERING CO., LTD. |
Katsuhiro Shikata |
| Executive Officer, President, OMRON Management Center of Asia Pacific, and General Manager, Global Human Resource Strategy Dept. |
General Manager, Global Human Resource Strategy Dept. |
Virendra Shelar |
| Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Strategy Planning Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
General Manager, Controller Division, Product Business Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
Masayuki Yamamoto |
| Retired | Managing Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Manufacturing Innovation HQ |
Kiyoshi Yoshikawa |
*Seigo Kinugawa, Kenji Eda, Virendra Shelar and Masayuki Yamamoto are scheduled to assume the new organization head on March 21, 2019.
[Appendix]
New management structure by the previous section changes is as follows.
Directors (Term: From the day at the 2019 Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting in June to the day at the 2020 Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting)
| Name | Position | Main concurrent title of outside officers |
|---|---|---|
| Fumio Tateishi | Chairman of the Board | - |
| Yoshihito Yamada | Representative Director | - |
| Kiichiro Miyata | Representative Director | - |
| Koji Nitto | Director | - |
| Satoshi Ando | Director | - |
| Eizo Kobayashi | Outside Director | Chairman, ITOCHU Corporation |
| Kuniko Nishikawa | Outside Director | President & CEO, Firststar Healthcare Co. Ltd., Chief Executive Officer, FRONTEO Healthcare, Inc. |
| Takehiro Kamigama | Outside Director | Mission Exective, TDK Corpotation |
* The above appointments are subject to approval at the 82nd Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting scheduled in June 2019.
Auditors
| Name | Position | Main concurrent title of outside officers |
|---|---|---|
| Kiichiro Kondo | Audit & Supervisory Board Member |
Reappointed |
| Kiyoshi Yoshikawa | Audit & Supervisory Board Member |
Newly Appointed |
| Hideyo Uchiyama | Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Independent) |
Executive Advisor, ASAHI TAX Corporation, Certificated Public Accountant |
| Tadashi Kunihiro | Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Independent) |
Attorney, T. Kunihiro & Co., Attorneys-at-Law |
Substitute Auditor Candidate (Term: From the day at the 2019 Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting in June to the day at the 2020 Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting)
| Name | Position | Main concurrent title of outside officers |
|---|---|---|
| Toru Watanabe | Substitute Audit & Supervisory Board Member (Independent) |
Partner, Kitahama Partners -Foreign Law Joint Enterprise, Attorney at Law |
* The above appointments are subject to approval at the 82nd Ordinary General Stakeholders Meeting scheduled in June 2019.
Executive Officers (As of April 1, 2019)
| Name | Position and Title |
|---|---|
| Yoshihito Yamada | President and CEO |
| Yutaka Miyanaga | Executive Vice President, Company President, Industrial Automation Company |
| Kiichiro Miyata | Senior Managing Executive Officer, CTO and Senior General Manager, Technology & Intellectual Property HQ, and Senior General Manager, Innovation Exploring Initiative HQ |
| Koji Nitto | Senior Managing Executive Officer, CFO and Senior General Manager, Global Strategy HQ |
| Katsuhiro Wada | Managing Executive Officer, President and CEO, OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. |
| Shizuto Yukumoto | Managing Executive Officer, Company President, Electronic and Mechanical Components Company, and Senior General Manager, Business Development HQ |
| Toshio Hosoi | Managing Executive Officer, President and CEO, OMRON SOCIAL SOLUTIONS CO., LTD. |
| Isao Ogino | Managing Executive Officer, President and CEO, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD. |
| Nigel Blakeway | Managing Executive Officer, Chairman and CEO, OMRON MANAGEMENT CENTER OF AMERICA, INC. and Chairman, OMRON MANAGEMENT CENTER OF EUROPE and Chairman, OMRON MANAGEMENT CENTER OF ASIA PACIFIC |
| Seigo Kinugawa | Managing Executive Officer, CEO, OMRON EUROPE B.V., Industrial Automation Company |
| Masahiko Tomita | Managing Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Human Resources and Administration HQ |
| Junta Tsujinaga | Managing Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Product Business Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
| Goshi Oba | Executive Officer, Chairman and President, OMRON INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION (CHINA) CO., LTD. |
| Takayoshi Oue | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Finance and Accounting HQ |
| Takashi Kitagawa | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Board of Directors Office |
| Munenori Odake | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Sales & Marketing Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
| Shuji Tamaki | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Risk Management and Legal HQ |
| Makoto Ota | Executive Officer, President and CEO, OMRON RELAY & DEVICES Corporation, and Senior General Manager, Production Division HQ, Electronic and Mechanical Components Company |
| Tsutomu Igaki | Executive Officer Senior General Manager, Global Investor & Brand Communications |
| Jian Xu | Executive Officer, China Manufacturing Innovation Project Executive, Global Manufacturing Innovation HQ, and President and CEO, SHANGHAI OMRON CONTROL COMPONENTS CO., LTD. |
| Kenji Eda | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Global Manufacturing Innovation HQ |
| Shinji Fukui | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Technology Development Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
| Masako Kubo | Executive Officer, President and CEO, OMRON EXPERTLINK CO., LTD. |
| Seiji Takeda | Executive Officer General Manager, Corporate Planning Dept., Global Strategy HQ |
| Taisuke Tateishi | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Environmental Solutions Business HQ |
| Katsuhiro Shikata | President and CEO, OMRON FIELD ENGINEERING CO., LTD. |
| Virendra Shelar | Executive Officer, President, OMRON MANAGEMENT CENTER OF ASIA PACIFIC, and General Manager, Global Human Resource Strategy Dept. |
| Masayuki Yamamoto | Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, Strategy Planning Division HQ, Industrial Automation Company |
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